mojomonkey Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24896784 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Art makes you think. In this case it also makes your eyes water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatsername Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 He's nuts ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Pretty much everything is art if the intention is to make art. It blurs a bit with performance & video art. When do they end & theatre and cinema take over? When there's a narrative? This is blurred further because it is also a political protest. But then there are tonnes of protest paintings that are clearly art. So, it is art. I often think the arises when people don't like or understand the work in question, but that's ok, as Greyson Perry says, "You don't have to like it all". I'd go further, it doesn't even have to make sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24896784 No, it's public indecency, just like those Pussy Riot whores who stick frozen chickens up their privates. No wonder there's a reactionary conservative element in Russia when they have these pinheads to contend with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merkin Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 ballsy move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Bawden Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 It's not art...it's mental illness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 The 'Art' world is totally f**ked up and has been for years. Grayson Perry delivering the 2013 Reith Lectures was just the latest joke perpetrated on the public and common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 The Reith Lectures were very thought provoking this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Grayson Perry's opinions are fairly common currency and the only reason he has a degree of fame is that he's a transvestite hod carrier from Essex who flounces around in women's dresses. The media loves him / her; he's a good story, entertaining, bizarre, a shape-shifter etc., but he's also a symptom of the modern art malaise. I've enjoyed many of Grayson's programmes for the BBC but he's a good self-publicist and knows how to play the narcissistic and neurotic art world at its own game, as he freely admitted in this year's Reith Lectures. He's his own work of art. If he didn't put on the slap and dress like a pixie I doubt he would sell f**k all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Is this art? BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106 "Bacon painting fetches record price". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Is this art? BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24922106 "Bacon painting fetches record price". Absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Most of Bacon's work was unremittingly ugly and visceral; this is one of his more accessible works. I thought that his contemporary, and the subject of this triptych, Lucian Freud; was much the greater artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paswt Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I do wonder if some of these "artists" are just "having a larf" . It's not that new, in the Tate Modern (South bank) they have displayed ,as art a tin of some artists excrement (I kid you not) to make matters funnier (IMO) they have 2 tins!! I knew a chap in London, now deceased, who was a copyist who discovered that his patron was getting another copyist to add a signature and putting the works to auction and making a good return. Long story short he decided to cut out the "middleman" and put the results of his labour to auction , he claimed not so much for the money but the joy of fooling the "experts" who he hated with a vengeance . A few years ago I knew of talented cabinet makers who occasionally turned their hand to making antique furniture (not done much these days as 'brownwood' furniture is so cheap). I'm told it is my misfortune not to be able to understand or appreciate 'modern art' , but I'm of the opinion that it's a bit like the "emperors new clothes"…………….. we were never told what happened to the little boy , if memory serves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Aaarrggght. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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